A. 4. Which of the following elements characterize this passage? Choose two that apply.
blank verse
b. symbolic images
c. realistic plot
d. psychological drama
e. literary allusions

from "The Cask of Amontillado," Edgar Allan Poe

The following passage is from "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. The narrator, Montresor, daims b have sustained insultafer insult from his acquaintance Fortunato To Aure Fortunato to his home, Montresor tells Fortunate that he is consulting another wine expert Luchresi, on whether same wine is true Amontillado Fortunato insists that he will testit himself Montresor leads Fortunato into the vaults under his home Read the passage Then. answer the question(s)

I took trom their sconces two tambeaux and giving one to Fortunato bowed him through several suites of rooms to the archway that led into the vauts passed down a long and winding staircase, requesting him to be cautious as he followed We came at length to the foot of the descent and stood together upon the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montessori

A the most remote end of the crype there appeared another less spacous its wals had been ined with human remans, pied to the vault overhead, n the fashion of the great catacombs of Pars Three sdes of this anterior crypt were sail ornamented in this manner From the fourth side the bones had been thrown down, and lay promiscuously upon the earth forming at one point a mound of some see When the wal thus exposed by the displacing of the bones we perceived a stil intenor crypt or recess, in de pth about four feet, in width three, in height so or seven seemed to have been constructed for no especial use within itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of ther crcumscribing walls of solid granite

a It was in van that Fortunato, uplitang his dull torch endeavored to pry into the depth of the recess is termination the feebie light dd no enable us to see

(4 "Proceed, 'I said, heren is the Amonelado As br Luchesi

He is an ignoramus, interupted my thend, as he stepped unsteadily forward, wie I followed immediately at his heels in an instant he had reached the extemy of the nche, and finding his progress arrested by the rock, stood updy bewidered A moment more and Ihad tetered hm the grane in is surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about wo eet horizontally From one of these depended a short chan trom the other a padlock Throwing the Inks about his waist it was but the work of a few seconds to secure He was too much astounded to resist Withdrawing the key stepped back from the recess

Pass your hand." I said, "over the wall you cannot help feeling the nitre Indeed, it is very

damp. Once more let me implore you to return No? Then i must positively leave you But!

must first render you all the little attentions in my power The Amontillado ejaculated my friend, not yet recovered from his astonishment